Every year when I start the Fairy Tale Opera project in Kindergarten (at the Brooklyn Children’s School), I ask the class to make a long list of characters that appear in fairy tales. Then the kindergartners choose three characters around which to build their original fairy tale (They also choose two places and one type of magic). Two out of three classes will invariably choose Dragon as one of their three characters (the second most popular character is Princess). This year is no different. Two of this year’s three Fairy Tale Operas feature dragons. As well as wizards. But where one class chose a mermaid as their third main character, the other chose a knight. And the stories as well as the characterizations of both wizard and dragon could not have been more different between the two classes. I already shared the first class’ mermaid’s tale of woe, bothered and besieged by a covetous wizard and hungry dragon. Let’s now tell the Tale of the Dragon and the Wizard Who Save the Village: